Selected reporting
"Can affordable housing for Indigenous communities work?"
High Country News. Feb 27, 2024. "They got jobs in the growing solar industry – but the reality was less sunny than they expected."
The Guardian. August 9, 2023. |
"North Denver’s green space paradox: Will a billion-dollar infrastructure project heal a Colorado community — or displace its residents?"
High Country News. December 1, 2023. "A Colorado city put a cap on new housing – and proved why it doesn’t work."
The Guardian. August 3, 2023. |
"As food insecurity soars in north Denver, a Latina-led rapid response team is supporting the city’s most vulnerable families." The Counter. July 20, 2020.
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"This Tiny Fishing Town Was Poisoned By a Coal Plant. The Government Is Trying to Replace it With a Mine." VICE World News. March 25, 2021.
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"This Yoga Co-Op Is Diversifying Teacher Training." Outside. July 31, 2020.
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"How Some Women Are Remaking the Workplace to Better Suit Their Lives."
The New York Times. September 10, 2021. |
Selected Essays
"Signs of Life." Hazlitt. (Nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award. Was also a Longreads Top 5 Pick of the Week)
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"To the Driver in Uganda who was not Godfrey." Off Assignment.
(included in "Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us," an anthology from Algonquin that you can order here.) |
"We keep fleeing wildfires. Soon, there may be nowhere left that’s safe."
The Washington Post. |
"Hiking Cormac McCarthy’s Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis." (Voted a LitHub staff pick for May 2019)
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"Room Service Economics: Seven Principles." Bat City Review. Issue 16. 2020. ("Notable" in Best American Essays 2021)
"Bone Memories." The Threepenny Review. Issue 156, Winter 2019. (Print only, "Notable" in Best American Essays 2020)
"Bone Memories." The Threepenny Review. Issue 156, Winter 2019. (Print only, "Notable" in Best American Essays 2020)
Selected Commentary
Interviews
“The revenge of Big Tech: a Q&A with novelist and reporter Vauhini Vara.” High Country News. May 1, 2022. Web and print.
"A Burmese American Family History That Weaves Legacy, Mythology, and Ghosts: A Conversation with Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint." Electric Literature. Aug 26, 2021. Web.
"I Spent Much of My Career Listening to White Folks Complain About Africa and Africans': an interview with Stephanie Kimou." GEN Mag. Sept 1, 2020. Web.
"Leslie Jamison is Hauling out her Emotional Baggage." Electric Literature. September 23, 2019. Web.
"What the World Demands of You: The Millions interviews Margo Jefferson." The Millions. September 26, 2018. Web.
"Chigozie Obioma Wants to Write a 'Paradise Lost' for the Igbo People." Electric Literature. January 8. 2019. Web.
"A Burmese American Family History That Weaves Legacy, Mythology, and Ghosts: A Conversation with Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint." Electric Literature. Aug 26, 2021. Web.
"I Spent Much of My Career Listening to White Folks Complain About Africa and Africans': an interview with Stephanie Kimou." GEN Mag. Sept 1, 2020. Web.
"Leslie Jamison is Hauling out her Emotional Baggage." Electric Literature. September 23, 2019. Web.
"What the World Demands of You: The Millions interviews Margo Jefferson." The Millions. September 26, 2018. Web.
"Chigozie Obioma Wants to Write a 'Paradise Lost' for the Igbo People." Electric Literature. January 8. 2019. Web.